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Doctors distance themselves from cult song
“We met, alone at her house’ / She looked way, way fatter than in the photo / I hugged her, which means I tried / I fell into her fatty tissue like a gorge.”
The song lines come from the song “Elke” by the Berlin band The doctors. For many fans, the 3.22-minute number is cult. But now frontman Farin Urlaub (bourgeois: Jan Vetter, 58) spoke a word of power!
As a user reports on Twitter, concert guests at a performance in Berlin asked the three-man band to play “Elke”. Answer from Farin Vacation: “No, folks. Elke is fatshaming and misogynous. We don’t play that anymore, that’s the last millennium.”
Younger and more rowdy: The doctors in a photo from 1993. To date, the band has sold more than eight million records
The word misogynistic means misogynistic. Fatshaming is bullying and discrimination against overweight people. The song says, among other things: “She has extremely heavy thighs, she is infinitely fat / I climbed her the other day – without oxygen equipment.”
Clear message from the punk veteran, who even wrote the song himself in 1988! According to legend, a female fan had followed the band, even enclosing pictures of herself in letters. So Farin Urlaub knew it was an overweight woman. His answer to the love nerves: the calorie swatter of the same name against that same Elke.
“Elke” is not the only controversial song of the band, here is a concert photo from 2016
“Elke”, which Farin Urlaub and his bandmates Bela B (Dirk Felsenheimer, 59) and Rodrigo Gonzalez (54) have long since removed from the program, is not the only controversial song by the doctors: “Claudia” addresses them A woman’s love affair with a shepherd dog, “sibling love” sexual intercourse between brother and sister.
That didn’t detract from the success of the punks. are estimated to have The doctors who even opened the “daily topics” oncehas sold more than eight million records in her 40-year career. (ias)